Current Events that Relate to History
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Book Review
How John Lewis Put a Legacy of Heroism to Use
As the civil-rights era receded, his personal heroism loomed larger. But movement politics didn’t easily translate into party politics.The New Yorker -
Antecedent
To Understand Mississippi, I Went to Spain
The forces that would shape my home state’s violent history were set in motion by a 480-year-old map made by a Spanish explorer.The Atlantic -
Book Review
An Early Case For Reparations
Two new books tell the stories of people kidnapped and sold into slavery. One of them sued successfully.The New Republic -
Etymology
America Is Not America Yet
On American history and the history of the word “America.”The Dial -
Journal Article
Postcolonial Pacific: The Story of Philippine Seattle
The growth of Seattle in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries is inseparable from the arrival of laborers from the US-colonized Philippines.JSTOR Daily -
Argument
The Death and Life of Progressive Urbanism
Blue America lacks a Gov. Ron DeSantis: someone remaking a state or major city in the image of a well-articulated ideology.Compact -
exhibit
Native Pasts
This exhibit showcases the cultural, political, and environmental histories of American Indians, from ancient civilizations to contemporary activism.
From the HNN Archive
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The Forebears of JD Vance and the New Right
Revisiting the Agrarian-Distributists and their fabrication of an American past. -
Overexposed
What happened to privacy when Americans gained easy access to cameras in the Gilded Age? -
An Early Case of Impostor Syndrome
Why were so many medieval books laden with self-deprecation? Blame genre conventions. -
Why Does American History Feel Like Ancient History to High School Students?
An argument for returning the recent past, and the history of modern conservatism, to classrooms. -
The Bowl Truth
On Joan of Arc’s much-maligned and forgotten haircut. -
No Place to Make a Vote of Thanks
On the long tradition of Black third-party activism.